Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman...
...approach to the problem was a play called Night Over Taos. In that piece an old Spanish hidalgo in New Mexico in 1847 detects in his son democratic tendencies. The conflict between the two kills the old man, but not before Playwright Anderson has put in his mouth this pragmatic doctrine: . . . The north will win. Taos is dead. It's right Because what wins is right. It won't win forever. The kings will come back, and they'll be right again When they win again...
...scars, folds and wrinkles but amazingly firm in outline. Head like a big trunk, battered by travel and covered with labels, mostly indecipherable. Cosmopolitan, intact but hard-used. Color warm neutral with dingy hair, thick and ill-groomed at rear. Heavy jowl, thrust out and up like an iguana. Mouth curved judicially, lower lip protrudes. Eyes slanting with complicated puckers beneath, giving air of speculation rather than dissipation. Form lumbering, sits carelessly in comfort with wrinkled shoulders. Bright, direct look, the frank, clear gaze of craft. Clever as hell but so innocent. Tactful, charming, ingratiating. Urbane grin, fine stage presence...
...that "nothing is true, but anything might be" was given U. S. theatregoers in 1925 with the production of Right You Are If You Think You Are. Here a husband and a mother-in-law are convinced that his wife and her daughter are two different people. In the mouth of an observer who tolerantly holds that both are right, Pirandello has stated his whole dramatic philosophy: "What can we know really about other people-who they are-what they are-what they are doing, and why they are doing it? ... All I'm saying is that you should...
...theatre. He had other eccentricities: he always ar ranged his knife and fork on his plate so that they should not point at his breast, was forever washing his hands, could not bear anything made of cotton. It still sets his teeth on edge to think of wiping his mouth with a napkin; he does it with the back of his hand...